Grandma S has been visiting us this week so we wanted to do a couple of fun day trips with her. On Thursday we headed up to Gettysburg after ice skating lessons.
First we thought we would walk through the museum.
It is a great museum -- very good illustrations of the differences between the North and South and the fact that sometimes brother fought against brother. My little S asked me, "Mom, which ones were the Americans?" I showed him the display along this back wall -- it lists each state and how many from it were serving on each side. Many of them were split and had some fighting for confederates and others fighting for the union.
There were short video clips all along the way that told the story of the war and especially the battle of Gettysburg.
They had a lot of interactive games. This one was the kids favorite. They pretended to be a soldier filling his backpack and had to choose which things to bring.
It was hard because the game told you the number of things that you had correctly chosen, but not which items.
Miss L loved this big horse statue.
We were burned out by the end of the Museum tour and decided to do the narrated driving tour another day! When we got home big sister A and her friend Z made a chocolate cake from scratch for our friend S's birthday.
On Saturday we spent the day in Lancaster. We took Daddy and Grandma S to all the fun places that we liked last time. This time I remembered to snap a picture of the kids trying the amish scooters. They really want some for Christmas, but 200$ each is a bit much.
The goat dairy shop was open, but the goat barn was already closed for the day. Luckily we ran into some other goats at another little shop.
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